The world is still reeling from the devastating series of earthquakes that struck Syria and Türkiye this week, injuring more than 68,000 people and killing over 15,000 at the time of this writing.

Within the next 30 years, a highly destructive Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake is predicted to hit southwest Japan. Understanding long-term slow slip events (L-SSE (*1)) that occur along the plate ...

"It isn't as easy as we thought it was going to be 15 years ago," says Jim Savage, a seismologist with the Menlo Park office of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which directs earthquake ...

Editor’s note (February 6th 2023): A massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria caused widespread damage, destroying buildings in many cities and, according to early estimates, killing hundreds ...

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere. This theoretical model builds ...

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago. The rocks preserve telltale ...